Sunday, November 16, 2008

As if reports of worldwide doom and gloom weren't depressing enough, this alarming list is making the rounds: The First 100 Items to Disappear in a Panic. (Hatchets are #26.) First circulated in '99, during millennium mania. Supposedly, it's compiled by a war survivor from Sarajevo, whose addendum does make it sound pretty convincing. But I'm hoping it's a merely a ploy by marketers at Amazon to incite a run on its languishing inventory. (Studies show ad practitioners are predominantly optimists.)

@brioii Thanks for the tip. Curiously, floss is identified under "Men's Hygiene" and a lowly 49 on the list. Maybe in an apocolypse women use toothpicks instead?

@catnip intoxicating (great name) You're def. right about TP. In the addendum (after the jump) list compiler adds "there is no luxury in war quite like toilet paper. Its surplus value is greater than gold's." Good call on the snow shovel, too. It should definitely be on there. Now where the heck did we put the dang thing...